The Wayland boys’ varsity track team placed fourth in the Division 2 regional meet at Mason Friday. The girls finished seventh.
The Hopkins girls checked in 10th at the meet and the guys were 13th.
Host Mason won both the boys’ and girls’ competition, the girls with 130 points and the boys with 119. Wayland guys had 65, just four fewer than third-place Olivet.
The Wildcat lads once again were strong in the sprints. Senior ace Ian Thompson and sophomore Kaharrie Pureifoy went 1-2 in the 1200-meter dash. Thompson also won the 200 with a state-qualifying time of 23.13 seconds and Pureifoy was fourth.
However, the Wildcat relay teams did not do as well as hoped. The 800 unit of Pureifoy, Aiden Reeder, Cainon Fenn and Thompson checked in third, as did the 400 with Pureifoy, Reeder Terry Sylvester and Thompson.
The 3200 relay with Devin Weaver, Dylan Pallett, Henry Oudbier and Travis Koon was sixth and the 1600 group was eighth with Weaver, Cainon Fenn, Oudbier and Aiden Reeder.
Carson Noyes scored a third in the shot put at 48-9.5 and Hopkins’ Mason Tomes was fifth. Noyes added a fourth in the discus.
Logan Klinge had the best individual finish for the Hopkins boy when he picked up a third in the pole vault by clearing 12-8.
Weaver added a fifth in the 800-meter run with his personal best effort of 2:03.12 and Adam Ball took seventh in the 1600.
For the girls, Wayland’s Olivia Barabas finished fifth in the 400 and Ava Makowski was fourth in the 800. Hopkins’ Nevaeh Helderop continued her late surge in the 1600, taking a fifth.
Kambria Moored took fourth in the 100-meter high hurdles and was seventh in the 300 intermediates.
Makowski, Elliot Antel, Breanna Hyde and Barabas hooked up to take fifth in the 1600-meter relay for Wayland. Makowski, Barabas, Antel and Noelle House did even better in the 3200 relay, taking third. House was fourth individually in the open 3200.
As expected, Grace Brenner was top Lady Vikings’ scorer with a second place in the shot put at 36-2.5, qualifying her for the state meet.
Wildcat freshman Kennedy Jasinki was third in the pole, but she fell just short of a state qualifying performance. However Breanna Hyde’s 15-9.5 effort in the long jump was good for a runner-up finish and a trip to the state meet on the first Saturday in June.